Another wrote: “We have had a transporter lorry on our road before and the driver had to reverse all the way back down the road and turn up Trafalgar Place as he couldn’t turn either way. It’s not the easiest thing to do in a large lorry”.

Aldi car park in Portslade

Haddington Street

As it is, there is no national ban against either on-street parking or pavement parking except in the latter case in the capital.

However, it is an offence to drive onto the pavement - with the intention to park or not.

Because this is a criminal offence, as opposed to the vast majority of civil parking offences, it is enforceable by the police, not councils.

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